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(860) 448-7313 Other
Activities: Driving Range
Cost: $5 for adult/$4 for children PLUS tax, 10% senior discount
Par: 42
Difficulty: 8
Creativity: 7
Atmosphere: 8
This is by far one of the best adventure-style courses we’ve played, for a variety of reasons. First, everything is in great condition. The carpets are all in good shape and the landscaping is well maintained. The course makes good use of its natural surroundings as well, incorporating some large boulders that were obviously there before the course was built. The course also offers an interesting new piece of information at the beginning of holes. We’ve seen that it’s become popular to show a bird’s-eye view of the hole at the beginning of each hole, but this is the first course we’ve seen that actually tells you how far it is to the cup. Not that this really matters much, but when you sink that hole-in-one, you can tell people exactly how far, thus how great, a shot it really was.
The holes themselves make some of the best use of “rough” that we’ve seen. The thicker carpeting is strategically placed to make putting into it a definite penalty. Because it is so thick, the lip that is formed between the rough and the “fairway” throws an added variable into the calculation of where to hit the ball. The holes are for the most part very difficult, involving a lot of tough slopes and interesting angles. It’s extremely difficult to get a hole-in-one on 90% of the holes on this course. However, the course does do a good job of occasionally throwing in an easier hole so as not to leave you continuously frustrated.
There were only two small negative aspects to this course and they don’t affect game play at all. The first is a pet-peeve of ours. The course doesn’t include tax in the price of the game. Although it is clearly marked, we’d rather it just be included in the price for simplicity’s sake. The other area where this course lost minor points is that they use a generic scorecard. There is no course information on the scorecard and you need to fill in the pars of the holes yourself. Other than those two areas, the staff was friendly and we had a fun time at this course. It’s definitely a must play if you get a chance.
Reviewed by Pat, Mandy, Will and Putt
Reviewed in 2002
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